Jon Acuff

So I think you're always kind of negotiating with life, with creativity, with the results you want.

And if you figure out that there is something that matters to you, you have to find ways to talk yourself into doing those things.

That's what I tell people is –

I'm the greatest John Acuff salesman in the world.

Um, and I should be because before every decision I've ever made, first, I talked myself into it.

Good, bad decisions, same thing.

So I think a lot of accomplishment is talking yourself into things you don't feel like doing, but you really want to do.

And that can be writing that can be repairing a relationship that can be trying to lose weight.

Like there's a lot of sales going on, um, in a life that's well-lived and full in my opinion.

Yeah, and identifying it or even recognizing it.

I mean, that's self-awareness, like that idea of pausing long enough to go.

Whoa, I got a wild story about this.

Like I, and I'm good at storytelling.

Like we're great at telling ourselves stories.

So like, okay, what do I, what is the story?

So for you, when you avoid work that you know you want to do, what do you think is your story?

No, same.

The way I sometimes say it is...

I'm not a systems thinker, meaning if there's three cars in our driveway and we need to move one to get it out, it takes me 11 moves and one car ends up on the lawn.

And my wife can see it immediately and move the one car and it's like Sudoku.